The more I live, the more I want depth. Depth of familiarity, depth of purpose, depth of friendship, depth of understanding, depth of knowing. I want to tell stories with depth, texture, sadness, humor, triumph and defeat. There is a magic and a mystery in those depths that is utterly missing in superficial declarations, and in the best one-liners. Depth entails complexity. And we want things stripped down to their essence. But the real essence is in the details, not in the generalizations. And it entails investment. It entails grit. It entails hurt. But I don't want to run from it.

Pauline